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CORRESPONDENCE.

Communications have been received from Mr. Penu; R.; the Asiatic Journal; and the Rev. R. Taylor.

The unusual quantity of Intelligence excludes this month several articles of Review (Ben David's Reply to Two Deistical Works, &c.).

Monthly Repository.

No. CCXXIV.]

AUGUST, 1824.

[Vol. XIX.

Original Letters from the Baxter Manuscripts in Dr. Williams's Library. From Bates to Baxter; Story of a Diabolical Possession.

[This letter is without date; it was probably written before Baxter print ed his Unreasonableness of Infidelity." In his second edition of "The Saints' Everlasting Rest," published 1651, as well as in the former work, published 1655, he refers to some of the authors pointed out by his learned correspondent. From those and others of his works, Baxter appears to have been quite prepared to receive the marvellous tale that Bates relates. He expresses himself as follows, in "The Saints' Everlasting Rest:" "I know many are very incredulous herein, and will hardly believe that there have been such apparitions. For my own part, though I am as suspicious as most in such reports, and do believe that most of them are conceits or delusions, yet having been very diligently inquisitive in all such cases, I have received undoubted testimony of the truth of such apparitions, some from the mouths of men of undoubted honesty and godliness, and some from the report of multitudes of persons who heard or saw. Were it fit here to name the persons, I could send them to you yet living, by whom you would be as fully satisfied as I: houses that have been so frequently haunted with such terrors, that the inhabitants successively have been witnesses of it." (Practical Works, Folio, Vol. III. p. 103.) Again he says, "The history of the Dispossession of the Devil out of many persons together in a room in Lancashire, at the prayer of some godly ministers, is very famous." Ib. P. 104. Once more, in his " Dying Thoughts," he says, "Satan himself, though unwillingly, hath many ways helped my belief of our immortality and future hopes. I have had many convincing proofs of witches, the contracts they have made with Devils, and the power which they have received from them. Besides the volumes of Remigius and Bodin, and

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the Mallei Maleficorum, Danææus and others, we had many score of them detected, and many executed in one year in Suffolk and Essex (for the truth of this read Mr. Fairclough's Life) about 1644. And I have at this present a flint-stone, which was one of about 160, which was voided by the urinary passage by a bewitched child in Evesham, yet living, some of near an ounce weight; which was fully proved, the witch executed, and the child, upon her imprisonment, freed: to pass by many others. And I have had convincing testimony of apparitions, beside that famous one, The Devil of Mascon, and that in the shape of Lieutenant-Colonel Bowen in Wales, mentioned elsewhere and besides, many testimonies of haunted houses; however many, or most such reports are but deceits." Id. p. 870.—“ Deceits," indeed, all such" reports" are now known to have been, but with such deceits were filled the minds of those divines to whom the religious world has looked up for a century and a half as authorities in matters of faith! ED.]

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"DEARE SIR,

Y tily sorry for the spreading of infidelity wh you mention. Concerning the authors who have writ de spectris, I made inquiry. There are Lavaterus de Spectris. Remigius-Demonolatria. Thyræus de Obsessis. Boissardus de Divinatione Pererius-Disquisitiones Magicæ. But, above all, I esteem a late Collection printed in Holland, entitled Magica-de Apparitionibus.

YOURS I received, and am hear

"Upon this occasion I will relate you a story of a maid in Canterbury, who about 9 years since was an eminent instance of God's displeasure, &c. She had promised marriage to one of a mean calling, whom she cast off upon an offer made by another who was better provided in estate. The first,

after several endeavours to recover her affections, comes to her at the last, and tells her he was going from her, so as she should never see him more; to wh she answered she was glad of it. He then took her by the apron-strings, and shaking them said, Bess! God will shake thee.' He, upon this, went from Canterbury to Dover, and was seen once to go towards ye sea, but never returned. This maid, living in a little roome by herself, had spun some flax, wh she carried to a neighbour's, intending to go sell it in the market. While she was in ye house, there being a very small fire, suddenly there was a noisome smell of brimstone which they marvelled at, but found not apparent The maid takes her basket wherein her flax was, and, opening it, found the flax burned to a coal! This gave so strong a smell that for the space of 4 hours the whole street was oppressed with it. The next night as this maid lay alone in her bed appears to her the man whom she had promised, with something about his head as if he were going to drown himself, and asked her whether she would have him. She shrinking into the bed, he takes hold of her fingers and disjoints all the parts of her fingers, wrist and arme to ye shoulder, and takes hold of her toe and plucks all out of joint from thence to her hip. The maid discovers nothing as yet.

cause.

Another

night there appears to her the forme of a bul, and with one blow breakes her ribbs to pieces. Another time, the forme of a dogg and tore her throat. Another time, a ball was forct downe into her stomack, wh soe inflamed her that she could no more be toucht than burning coales. Soe that with anguish one of her eyes dropt out. The Divel told her that her case was desperate, and bid her seeke for no helpe by ministers. But the Lord in his rich mercy prevailed upon her to open her condition to them, who by fasting and prayer obtained mercy for her. She was eminently broken in heart, freed from those dreadful effects of God's anger, and became an humble holy Christian. She is still alive, for these 8 years not able to move out of her bed, only as lifted in

a sheete.

"That you may be assured of the

truth of this story, know that I received it from one of ye ministers who then lived in Canterbury, who was with her, and put his hand into her side where her ribbs were broken. It

is most worthy to be communicated to ye world in this unbelieving age.

I have lately lookt upon your booke in answer to Mr. Pierce: it very much pleases me to read your vindication of the Synod of Dort, and of the Puritans, who are certainly the best men in ye world, although by Mr. Pierce and others of his faction they are blasted as not worthy to live. But of Pierce and Grotius more hereafter.

"The good Lord direct and prosper you in that work wh he gives you to doe, and to express myself in the verse of an excellent man,

"Goe you to heav'n, but yet do make no hast,

Goe slowly, slowly, but yet goe at last.'

"I am,

"Yours, in the truest bond,
"WM. BATES.

"London, 5th August. "Direct your letters for mee to bee left at Mr. Titon's, yt I may not misse them.

"For the Reverend and his most

worthily respected friend Mr. Richard Baxter, minister of the Gospel at Kidderminster, theise."

From Baxter to Mr. Wm. Thomas, Minister of Ubley, Somersetshire, on the Case of his Son, who had been under Baxter's care for the cure of an Heretical Disposition. "REVEREND SIR,

"I forbore long to write to you, because I had nothing of moment to acquaint you with. At last I wrote by London way, engaging Mr. Underhill to send it to you; but by your son I understand you received it not. Having found that your son did differ from me in some points, (most philosophicall about the very being or nature of all habits and inclinations; and the possibility of God's effectually causing a free act, &c.,) I was forced to dispute these with him first; because they being supposed in the dispute of originall sin and special grace,

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